Poll: Do you finish games more than once?

[Creator002]

I often play games multiple times, though only if I like the story enough. If there's an achievement I missed, I'll usually stop my progress and get that.
Just recently completed Murdered: Soul Suspect a second time and I'm playing through Life is Strange, which I can see myself doing again.
Bethesda games I often find myself doing over and over. Completed the stories of Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas more than 3 times each, including a few guilds multiple times and DLC.

 

[Blue_screen]

Well nowadays I play mostly rougue-like games or similar fare due to time constraints (ftl, papers please, risk of rain) so I have an incentive to play the game over and over again to collect all the achivements and doodads.

 

[Politrukk]

Only if the game is really, really good.
And even then it usually is because there's multiple campaign directions and the like.

For example:
In the Witcher 2 you can pick Ioreth's Path or you can pick Roche's path, both lead you through different aspects of the campaign, so much so that most people say you really have to play the game twice.


On the contrary games that I felt had very little re-play value were usually very linear story based games for example the Mass Effect games.

Whilst in the Witcher one can change major aspects of the story without even knowing it, Bioware games have always had a tendency to give you the illusion of choice only when the rails have stopped for a bit to give you a breather before dragging you back on track.

 

[duwenbasden]

only if there is no 'story' or 'character arc' to drag it down. story + predined characters = linearity = not gonna do it more than once.

eg:
SimCity 4 - 7000+ hours
Warcraft 3 - 4000 hours.
Skyrim - 1000+ hours
Cities SL - 250 hours